How to price your home for a quick sale

In Martyr Worthy, Hampshire, is a seven-bedroom house on sale for £6.25 million with Knight Frank

If you are trying to sell your home, the phrase of the moment is “precision pricing”. Get the value of your property right and you can still sell quickly and (somewhat) competitively. Get it wrong and you could end up in a state of property purgatory, unsure of when you will move.

However, in the present environment of down-valuations, setting the right price can be difficult.

More surveyors are declaring a home to be worth less than a seller hopes it is. The difference can be as much as six — or, as we report below, seven — figures. Even if your home is not down-valued, you may find it hard to secure a sale because of the cost of moving to the next step of the…

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